Just a Woman (1918 film) explained

Just a Woman
Director:	Julius Steger
Producer:	Joseph Schenck
Studio:	S & S Photoplays
Distributor:	U.S. Exhibitor's Booking Corp.
Runtime:	6 reels
Country:	United States
Language:	Silent (English intertitles)

Just a Woman is a lost^[1] 1918 American silent drama film directed by Julius Steger based on a Broadway play, Just a Woman, by Eugene Walter. The film starred Charlotte Walker, then wife of playwright Walter.^[2]

The film was remade again in 1925 as Just a Woman with Claire Windsor.^[3]

Cast

• Charlotte Walker as Anna Ward
• Lee Baker as Jim Ward
• Forrest Robinson as Judge Van Brink
• Henry Carvill as John Prentiss
• Edwin Stanley as Fred Howard
• Anna Williams as Mary
• Charles Kraus as Elias fox
• Lorna Volare
• Cornish Beck
  • Florence Deshon Camille Dalberg

Reception

Like many American films of the time, Just a Woman was subject to cuts by city and state film censorship boards. For example, the Chicago Board of Censors cut, in Reel 4, the embrace between the husband and woman after the intertitle "I hope to be back soon", and, Reel 6, the intertitle "I want the court to understand" etc.^[4]

Notes and References

1. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.6634/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Just a Woman
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20150921220016/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=18014 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: Just a Woman
3. http://www.ibdb.com/production.php?id=8259 Just a Woman as produced on Broadway at the 48th Street Theatre January-May 1916; IBDb.com
4. Official Cut-Outs by the Chicago Board of Censors . Exhibitors Herald . 6 . 19 . 31 . Exhibitors Herald Company . New York City . May 4, 1918 .